Literary Fiction

While I normally don't read literary fiction, I feel the urge to read something recent in the genre, say from 2012 or this year. Does anyone have a recommendation(s)?

 

It's a big category. Any particular type of story you like?

I recently read a book called Too Bright to Hear, Too Loud to See about a guy with bipolar disorder. It was very interesting.

 

I am game for just about anything. This one you just mentioned sounds interesting indeed, I read the full description on Amazon.

 

Another good one is Amity Gaige's Schroeder. It's got an unreliable narrator, who kidnaps his daughter.

In my TBR pile (which is enormous -- actually it should be piles) I've got The Age of Miracles, The Yellow Birds, One Last Thing Before I Go, Billy Flynn's Long Halftime Walk, A Thousand Pardons, and The Orphan Master's Son. Although I've heard good things about all of these (hence why they're sitting by my bed), I can't say yet whether I'd personally recommend them.

 

What do you mean by Literary Fiction? Stuff like Murakami? If so have you checked out 1Q84?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_fiction

But no, I have not read that yet. Sounds awesome!

 

Thanks, these sound great too!

 

I second Murakami. I haven't actually read 1Q84, but he's one of the best living writers in my opinion, so you can't go wrong with that book.

 

It can be dangerous to ask for (or even to read) book recommendations...